Part I. From public knowledge to institutional discourse -- 1. Discourse and discipline -- 2. Reconstructing the university: The German model, the American version of that model, and the University of London -- 3. The social mediation of economic discourse -- Part II. The Cambridge moment -- 4. The moral sciences tripos and Cambridge political economy -- 5. The Cambridge tripos in economic and political science: structure and outcome -- 6. What is "Marshallianism"? -- Part III. Alternative histories -- 7. Why not Oxford? -- 8. The unrealised prospect of historical economics -- Part IV. Commerce and economics -- 9. Models for commercial education: The United States, France, and Germany -- 10. Higher commercial education in Great Britain and Ireland: late start, early dissolution -- 11. Commerce and economics at the London School of Economics -- 12. The scientisation of economics -- 13. Concluding remarks